On Friday 03 January 2003 15:39, Jody Cleveland wrote: > Hello all, > > Well, I took the plunge and installed Mandrake 9. So far, I'm very > impressed with it. I like it quite a bit better than Redhat 8. Any way, I'm > trying to setup my DSL connection. No matter what I do, it says it's unable > to connect, and to check my configuration. I dual boot with Mandrake 9 and > Windows XP. I tried to match up everything exactly as it is in Windows, but > it just won't connect. Is there a setting that needs to be set within the > network setup?
Personally, i had many problems getting Mandrake Control Center to configure my ADSL connection. In fact, i never could get it to work. What i do is configure it from the command line. It's really simple and fast. Even faster that configuring the same connection under XP pro. Just log in as root, and type in a shell: adsl-setup the adsl-setup will ask you some simple questions about your connection (like username/password, a name for your connection, and DNS servers), and you'll be good to go in about a minute. From there, whenever you need to connect to the internet, you just type adsl-start. (and to disconnect you type adsl-stop). for this, you need the rp-pppoe package installed. if you get "adsl-setup: command not found" you can install it by typing urpmi rp-pppoe HTH Damian
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